Re: cartooners from the hard drive

[a3khan@student.business.uwo.ca (Alimudin Khan)]

jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes:

> I got cartooners a while back for my kid's GS.  Well, I wanted
> to install it on the hard drive.  So, I created a folder called
> 'Cartoons' in the root directory on the hard drive and copied
   ^^^^^^^^

I suggest trying 'Cartooners' as the folder name.  That's what mine's 
called, and it's not even in the root directory of my hard drive.

> art disks into the appropriate places.  I also copied the icons
> 
> The program launches fine but it can't figure out that the art is
> on the hard drive.  It asks me for the art disk and if I put it
> in, the app only uses the artwork from the floppy.  If I say
> cancel to the art disk request, it just searches forever on the 
> floppies.
> 

Selecting 'cancel' makes the dialog box go away, and the program 
continues...In addition to changing the folder's name to Cartooners, I'd 
double check the names of the Music, Scenes, etc. directories inside.  
Try naming them exactly as per the original disks, case sensitivity 
included.

Some older programs that I've installed on my hard drive have pathnames 
'hard-wired' into them, so that they have to find precisely the right 
path.  This could be the case with Cartooners, but I don't remember 
changing any pathnames in the program itself.

> I have a stock GS , 7meg ram, 1-3.5" and 1-5.25" disk.  I've 
> tried renaming the folder a couple of different things but 
> nothing has helped.  Any help from the net would be appreciated.
> 
BTW, I'm running System 6, and it works fine.  The only other suggestion 
would be the old 'shift-boot' to see if any DA's/inits are interfering...

Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> Joe Freeman	jfreem@uncecs.edu
> 	The opinions espressed here are my own and are not 
> 	shared by my former employer, future employer, anyone 
> 	in my family  or anyone else I know of.  


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Alim Khan
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